It prevents rootkit malware that loads before the OS and therefore is very difficult to detect. If enabled, it tells your machine to only load the OS if it’s signed by a trusted key and hasn’t been tampered with.

Wireless Ass-Penguins

Streisand effect. There’s a news story going around about Meta intentionally deleting links to Pixelfed: https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/

I’m sure Zuckerberg’s recent comments are helping as well.

No, but the whole point of Doctorow’s Enshittification essay is that it inevitably will. In the same way animals keep evolving into crabs due to convergent evolution, social media companies will keep turning into shit because the market incentives push them that way.

Was it supposed to be funny? I thought the joke was that he was a terrible hackneyed comedian.

Because the alternative is people getting compromised and getting their computer crypto locked, accounts stolen or their bank account drained.

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That’s pretty obviously fake. This is what the real markings look like: https://www.archives.gov/files/isoo/training/marking-booklet-revision.pdf

Documents marked “not for public release” aren’t classified. They’re what’s called controlled unclassified information (CUI). It’s anything from PII, law enforcement victim records to sensitive (but unclassified) technical manuals. There’s dozens of categories if anyone cares to look at them: https://www.archives.gov/cui/registry/category-marking-list

They shouldn’t be sitting out there, but it’s also not a crime.

And thank you Microsoft.